“We need conservatives in NC, help us make it more red!”
I spent 15 years in local CT politics to help the cause. I’m through. I want to be with friends.
If unquestionably red, with no doubt about it statewide, is what you’re seeking you’ll only find it in Oklahoma. Every southern state east of the Mississippi is in varying stages of change due to northern influx. Some are just further along than others. Beautiful Ol’ Virginny is now a hopelessly lost cause due to DC metastasizing into northern VA. As the cities in NC grow, their blue influence begins to overwhelm real North Carolina, which remains and always will be red as can be. Tennessee has the same issue with Nashville, for all the crowing about Charlotte being a liberal cesspool you’d hardly know the difference between the two. Georgia? Atlanta’s burst out of it’s usual few counties and threatens to turn the state purple and keep it there. You’re reduced to regions and the best one by far in my opinion is southern Appalachia, so you’re not wide of the mark with the Asheville, NC vicinity, you’re dead center but Asheville has turned into something else politically. Nearby east Tennessee is great, red, red red. Beautiful country. Upstate South Carolina is, too, not quite so deep red but the state as a whole is redder than any southeastern Atlantic state. Given the aforementioned influx, how long will that last, though? Only time will tell. Conservatives need to start having children again, more than just two per married couple.